Nearly a year later, the first SCOPE‑based product has finally been launched. Clockwise from top left are a small modular panel (incorporating Oscillators from Waldorf), the Vocoder, the FM One 8‑operator FM synth, the Stereo Phaser effect module, Akai CD‑ROM compatible Sample Player, and the low‑resource EZ Synth. Here you can see some of the attractive devices supplied with the system as shipped. Pulsar is not restricted to one 'house graphic' style. Third‑party software developers were also being encouraged to help support the platform. Certainly, what we saw at Frankfurt showed plenty of promise demo SCOPE Environment objects ranged from mixers, samplers, and effects to a selection of computer‑generated synths including analogue, FM, granular, and modular examples. SCOPE (Scalable Open Processing Environment) was designed to offer a complete purpose‑built audio recording, processing, generating, and mixing environment for both PC and Mac, based around a multiple‑I/O soundcard with huge DSP power, as supplied by Analog Devices SHARC DSP chips (claimed to be the fastest available anywhere).Ĭreamware's goal had been to create a stable and controllable environment that could integrate all the components of a typical recording studio, running entirely in its own hardware and minimising latency by use of custom code inside the SHARC chips.
Despite the successes of their established range, however, one of the most memorable product previews at the 1998 Frankfurt MusikMesse was that of the company's then‑newly‑announced SCOPE platform. Thousands of their tripleDAT 'PCI card plus computer'‑based digital audio recording systems are in use worldwide, frequently in conjunction with their multiple‑I/O TDAT16 on the hardware side, their Osiris real‑time restoration software, and their FireWalkers real‑time DSP effects system. German software and hardware manufacturers Creamware have an established track record where quality audio products are concerned. Martin Walker finds the features of Creamware's new 'DSP‑powered Music Production Environment' impressive even by modern standards. These days, high‑end PC soundcards offer much more than mere audio interfacing, incorporating mixing, synthesis, sampling and often powerful onboard processing facilities. The Pulsar card, with its four SHARC DSP chips clearly visible.
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